This has now been ceased and Teletext is no longer available on Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5.

Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions.

The ITV network, like BBC1, began full colour transmissions on 15 November 1969 and it is therefore possible that the first transmitted colour episode is number 928 shown on 17 November.

The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

The BBC region is BBC North West and the ITV region is Granada.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV.

It was recently discovered that the original copy had been wiped, which is unusual as the wiping of archive material at ITV is usually thought to have stopped around 1977.

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.

Local TV content is currently provided by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central News.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

He is a qualified medical doctor, and was co-writer ( with Bill Oddie ) of several episodes of the medical comedy Doctor in the House on ITV ( appearing in the episode " Doctor on the Box " as a television presenter ).

Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971.

The show was made for ITV and is often repeated today on Sky Real Lives, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky 3 ( now Pick TV ) & ITV2.

ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom.

ITV is a network of television channels operating regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network.

ITV is to be distinguished from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004 and which holds the Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

Similarly ITV1 is the brand used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas.

By 2004, ITV was owned by five companies of which two, Carlton and Granada had become major players by owning between the two all the franchises in England, Wales, the Scottish borders and the Isle of Man.

However, since the amalgamation of companies since the creation of ITV Network Ltd., and since that Channel Television is now owned by ITV plc, it has been replaced by an affiliation system.

At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region.

Licences in England and Wales were held by the individual regional ITV plc owned companies prior to November 2008.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

DMOL ( DTT Multiplex Operators Ltd .), a company owned by the operators of the six DTT multiplexes ( BBC, ITV, C4, and Arqiva ) is responsible for technical platform management and policy, including the electronic programme guide and channel numbering.

ITV already owned some of SDN due to the consolidation of the ITV industry: Granada bought UNM's stake in SDN, and this was then incorporated into the united ITV plc.

In January 1955 the ITA authorised the creation of ITN ( Independent Television News ), a company owned and operated by the ITV companies collectively, to provide a news service for the new network.

It is now wholly owned by ITV plc

While the branding is very similar to regions owned by ITV plc, Channel Television uses an older ITV1 logo with white letters on its idents supplemented by the wording ' Channel Television ' and pre-recorded local continuity announcements are used at key junctions-including prior to national and regional news and on the handover from ITV Breakfast at 9. 25am.

In 2010, ITV plc acquired the 25 % stake owned by Disney gaining full control of the station.

NBT and TVThai does not broadcast them either, because owned by government, but when TVThai still being ITV and TITV, it broadcast.

Even though national coverage is produced by ITN, it has no role in the regional coverage provided for each individual ITV region's newsroom with the exception of ITV London, which it has run since March 2004 following its acquisition of the London News Network, a company previously owned by the now merged Carlton and Granada.

The station is owned and operated by ITV plc under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting Limited ( formerly Westcountry Television Limited ).

In November 1996, Westcountry was purchased by Carlton Communications ( now ITV plc ), who by that time owned the London weekday ( Carlton Television ) and Midlands ( Central ) franchises.

The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting Limited.

Carlton Communications had owned a stake in Central since the early eighties ( before Carlton Television became an ITV Franchisee in its own right ).

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

The Prince of Wales made a cameo in the episode, appearing in a pre-recorded segment as himself in an ITV News bulletin report, presented by Trevor McDonald.

The anniversary was also constructed by a number of ITV specials and news broadcasts.

Like BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward: Westward Television from episode 40 on 29 April 1961, Border Television from episode 76 on 1 September 1961, Grampian Television from episode 84 on 30 September 1961, Channel Television from episode 180 on 1 September 1962 and Teledu Cymru ( north and west Wales ) from episode 184 on 14 September 1962.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* List of television programmes broadcast by ITV

Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

Perhaps more importantly still, the film was shunned by the BBC and ITV, who declined to show it for fear of offending Christians in this country.

ITV was accused of engineering this in order to damage the final episode's expected high ratings, but was later cleared by the Independent Television Commission.

* Paramount also owns ( through the Viacom merger ) US distribution rights to the 1951 film The African Queen, originally distributed by United Artists ( the international rights are with ITV Global Entertainment ).

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

During the 1960s Coronation Street ’ s main rival was Crossroads, a daily serial that began in 1964 and was broadcast by ITV in the early evening.

A new version of Crossroads featuring a mostly new cast was produced by Carlton Television for ITV in 2001.